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Radio 4,20 Apr 2012,28 mins
Bert Weedon, Mike Wallace, Judy Egerton, Jack Tramiel and Ahmed Ben Bella
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Matthew Bannister on The man who taught the world to play guitar - Bert Weedon The American TV correspondent Mike Wallace who founded 60 Minutes and interviewed the famous and influential. The art historian Judy Egerton who wrote the definitive work on George Stubbs and enjoyed a gossip with her friend Alan Bennett. He pays tribute. The Algerian freedom fighter and then President Ahmed Ben Bella. And the businessman Jack Tramiel, a holocaust survivor who developed the pioneering Commodore computer.
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